Into the Woods is based on the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical by the sameLapine and StephenSondheim .

A great fantasy, a mix of various fairy-tales or better, a variety of characters taken by a lot of fairy-tales as it happens always more often in recent productions as we have seen from various years at this part.

An example for all?

Shrek, a big Dreamworks success where there was a melting pot of characters taken from various classic fairy-tales every kid I hope know.

In Into the Woods the various protagonists will be all united for helping the poor Baker and his wife fighting against the Witch, their common enemy. It’s in fact the story of a couple without children and a witch who cursed them once.

It was an age the studios were interested to releasing a movie based on this musical and more than 15 years ago a first script was written by Lowell Ganz and Babbaloo Mandel with a cast included Robin Williamsas the baker, Goldie Hawn as the baker’s wife, Cher as the Witch, Denny De Vito as the giant, Steve Martin in the role of the wolf, and Roseanne Barras Jack’s mother.Although other attempts took place a film adaptation of Into the Wood remained in stand-by for more than 15 years.